Most of us believe that we havebeenbetrayed by someoneoutside of us -in otherwords someone has donesomething to hurt us,been dishonest or broken a promisemade:some trust in some concept was broken.Indeed someone may have taken an actionthat took only their needs into consideration,they may have not followed through on a promise made,and they may have not told you the truth.But their actions have nothing to do with youand have everything to do with them.That's why no one can do anything TO you.They can take actions that involve you that you may not like -according to your point of view.But you are not a victim, no way, no how.- Sheri Rosenthal

Honesty may be the best policy,but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination,dishonesty is the second-best policy.- George Carlin

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Treat those who are good with goodness,and also treat those who are not good with goodness.Thus goodness is attained.Be honest to those who are honest,and be also honest to those who are not honest.Thus honesty is attained.- Lao Tzu

Only good comes from being honest and true.Only harm and suffering come from falsehood.It doesn't always feel as if good comes from truth and honesty,but, in the long run, it does.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.- Mark Twain

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.- Thomas Jefferson

Give your time and efforts freely or not at all.When you are tempted to say,"Oh, if I have to, I'll skip my golf gameand watch my daughter play soccer," don't do it.Either generate the heart-felt emotionto make the free-will gift,"I'd love to watch your game today, Sandy,"or the honesty to decline the request gracefully.Martyrdom doesn't create happinessfor any of the parties involved.An honest, "No" is preferable to a coerced "Yes."- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Treat the earth well.It was not given to you by your parents,it was loaned to you by your children.We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,we borrow it from our Children.- Native American traditional

Treat the earth well,It was not given to you by your parents,It was loaned to you by your children.- Native American Proverb

The world is incomprehensible.We won't ever understand it;we won't ever unravel its secrets.Thus we must treat the world as it is:a sheer mystery.- Carlos Castaneda

Men kick friendship around like a football,but it doesn't seem to crack.Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Trust men and they will be true to you;treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can easily judge the character of othersby how they treat those who cando nothing for them or to them.- Malcolm S. Forbes

Beginning today, treat everyone you meetas if they were going to be dead by midnight.Extend to them all the care,kindness and understanding you can muster,and do with no thought of any reward.Your life will never be the same again.- Og Mandino

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,but with roughest courage.When they are real, they arenot glass threads or frost-work,but the solidest thing we know.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,and you'll help them to becomewhat they are capable of becoming.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am fond of pigs.Dogs look up to us.Cats look down on us.Pigs treat us as equals.- Winston Churchill

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialitiesbut never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.- Quentin Crisp

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is.Treat a man as he can and should be,and he will become as he can and should be.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man tends to treat all of his opinions as principles.- Herbert Sebastian Agar

We should not let our response tothe people who disagree with usbe dictated by what they say about usor even how they treat people we care for.There has to be a chance that we can find love.- William J. Clinton

We are not what we are,nor do we treat or esteem each other for such,but for what we are capable of being.- Henry David Thoreau

I, with a deeper instinct,choose a man who compels my strength,who makes enormous demands on me,who does not doubt my courage or my toughness,who does not believe me naive or innocent,who has the courage to treat me like a woman.- Anais Nin

Let there be peace on earth.And let it begin with me.- Jill Jackson Miller

Trees are the earth's endless effortto speak to the listening heaven.- Rabindranath Tagore

I am one with the Earth,with the Water, with the Fire,with the Air that I breathe,with all Living Things,and we are all one with Spirit.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sing like no one's listening,love like you've never been hurt,dance like nobody's watching,and live like its heaven on earth.- Mark Twain

Earth laughs in flowers.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.He should sweep streets so well that all the hostsof heaven and earth will pause to say,here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,we borrow it from our children.- Native American Proverb

Dance like no one is watching,love like you'll never be hurt.Sing like no one is listening.Live life like it's heaven on earth.- Anonymous (various attributions and alternate phrasings)

Take time to laugh.It is the music of the soul.Take time to think.It is the source of power.Take time to play.It is the source of perpetual youth.Take time to read.It is the fountain of wisdom.Take time to pray.It is the greatest power on Earth.Take time to love and be loved.It is a God-given privilege.Take time to be friendly.It is the road to happiness.Take time to give.It is too short a day to be selfish.Take time to work.It is the price of success.- Anonymous

The highest proof of the spirit is love.Love is the eternal thing which men can alreadyon earth possess as it really is.- Albert Schweitzer

Love like you've never been hurt,dance like no one is watching,live as though heaven is on earth.- Satchel Paige

Nothing can stop the man with the rightmental attitude from achieving his goal;nothing on earth can help the manwith the wrong mental attitude.- Thomas Jefferson

So powerful is the light of unitythat it can illuminate the whole earth.- Baha'u'llah

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,But has trouble enough of its own.- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Know that you are one with the earth, with the water,with the fire, with the air that you breathe, with all living things,and that all of these are one with Spirit.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May You Always Be Connected With Earth and Sky -Drawing Energy From Both.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Each and every human being on Earthhas both the responsibility and the privilegeof viewing themselves as Divine beingswith the power to bring about peace.- James Twyman

Be gentle with the earth.- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Our creator is the same and never changesdespite the names given Him by people hereand in all parts of the world.Even if we gave Him no name at all,He would still be there, within us,waiting to give us good on this earth.- George Washington Carver

To love what you do and feel that it matters,how on earth could anything be more fun.- Katherine Graham

The greatest test of courage on earthis to bear defeat without losing heart.- Robert Ingersoll

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -an instruction book didn't come with it.- R. Buckminster Fuller

Property is intended to serve life,and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect,it has no personal being.It is part of the earth man walks on.It is not man.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We try to realize the essential unity of the worldwith the conscious soul of man;we learn to perceive the unity held togetherby the one Eternal Spirit,whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars,and at the same time irradiates our mind.- Rabindranath Tagore

That sense of sacredness,that thinking in generations,must begin with reverence for this earth.- Paul Tsongas

There is no security on this Earth,there is only opportunity.- Douglas MacArthur

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:If you're alive, it isn't.- Richard Bach

Look at everything as though you were seeing iteither for the first or last time.Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.- Betty Smith

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.- Aristotle

It is only when we truly know and understandthat we have a limited time on earthand that we have no way of knowing when our time is upthat we will begin to live each day to the fullest,as if it were the only one we had.- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Suspended between earth and sky,my humanity draws from both,my tendrils reach for the energies of each.Spirit and Ground - equal yet opposite,the lightness and the solidarity,the ephemeral and the substantial.The substantial is no more and no lessthan the ephemeral - merely different.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I breathed a song into the air,It fell to earth, I knew not where;For who has sight so keen and strong,That it can follow the flight of song -The song from beginning to end,I found again in the heart of a friend.- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The things that have acquired unity are these:Heaven by unity has become clear;Earth by unity has become steady;The Spirit by unity has become spiritual;The Valley by unity has become full;All things by unity have come into existence.- Lao Tzu

Being angry is as close as a human beingcan come to experiencing hell on earth.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth,and that is that no instruction book came with it.- R. Buckminster Fuller

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth?Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.- Henry David Thoreau

Today, walking the beach, I was reminded of the bountyof the earth in the form of wild blackberries -a free feast, with no one else bothering to partake.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.- Zhuangzi

For once you have tasted flightyou will walk the earthwith your eyes turned skywards,for there you have beenand there you will long to return.- Leonardo da Vinci

Service to others is the rent you payfor your room here on earth.- Muhammad Ali

We return thanks to our mother,the earth, which sustains us.We return thanks to the rivers and streamswhich supply us with water.We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicinesfor the cure of our diseases.We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters,the beans and squashes, which give us life.We return thanks to the bushes and trees,which provide us with fruit.We return thanks to the wind,which, moving the air, has banished diseases.We return thanks to the moon and the stars,which have given us their light when the sun was gone.We return thanks to our grandfather He-no,that he has protected his grandchildren from witches and reptiles,and has given us his rain.We return thanks to the sun,that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye.Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit,in whom is embodied all goodness,and who directs all things for the good of his children.- Iroquois traditional

Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower.Dream your dream to the skyand it will bring you your beloved.- Khalil Gibran

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall.He will end by destroying the earth.- Albert Schweitzer

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth,and no culture comparable to that of the garden.- Thomas Jefferson

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.- Thomas Jefferson

The primal rhythmic powerand resonant sound of waves on the shoreare like the earth's heartbeat,and become our connection with the body of nature.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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